Improvement in supports for sewing-machine attachments



P. GROSFELDJ Support forSewing Machine Atjtachments.`

No. 125,674. ParentedApri|16,1872.

` UNITED STATES PHILIP Gitosrnn'n,l or NEW YORK, N. Y;

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 125,674, dated April 16, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

i of the same.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

This in vcntion consists in providing a standard with a scw-clamp and abracket, arranged at right angles to each other in such a 4manner that the said screw-clamp canbe secured to the arm or standard of a sewing-machine, while the bracket is so constructed that it receives at either end a plate clamping ahanger for support-ing a creaser, binder, hemmer, or other device, so that the said hanger can be readily adjusted on either side of the needle, according to t-he direction ot' the feed.

In the drawiug,jthe Vletter A designates a sewing-machine of the class known as Willcox and Gibbs,77 but my attachment is applica ble to all classes of sewing-machines. On the arm B of this sewing-machine is secured the screw-clamp C, which consists of two jaws capable of straddling the arm B, and provided with one or more set-screws, a, which serve to retain said screw-clamp firmly in position, and which allow it to be readily attached to the arm of any sewing-machine. From the screwclamp G rises a standard, D, which carries a bracket, E, having a shoulder, e, at each end to receive one end of a plate, c, from which projects the hanger F. rlhe plate is secured to the bracket by a screw, and the hanger eX- tends down in front of the needle-that is to say, on that side thereof from which the material to be sewed is fedtoward the needle. On the lower end of the hanger is secured a binder, G, or a hemmer, or a gatherer, or a crea-ser, or any device of a similar nature; and after this binder or other device has been adjusted in the desired position, the operation of binding, hemming, creasing, or so forth, can be carried on with great facility, since the attachment does not obstruct any portion of the clothes-plate, and the work can be turned under the needle or handled during the operation of sewing with the same facility as it can without the attachment. By extending the bracket E which supports the hanger Ffrom the standard D in opposite directions, either end of plate c may be secured at either end of the bracket E, so that the hanger can be readily adjusted on either side of the needle, according to the direction in which the feed takes place; ifor in some machines the feed comes from the left and in others from the right, and it is the object of my invention to produce a support for attachments which is applicable to all classes of sewing-machines.

I do not broadly claim supporting binders, hemmers,and such other attachments above the bed-plate of a seuingmachine 5 but What I claim as new, and desire to secure bp Letters Patent, is-

The standard D, having-the clamp C and double-shouldered bracket E, in combination with the plate c and hanger F, all constructed and arranged as and for the purpose set forth.

This speciiication signed by me this 28th day of February, 1872.

PHILIP GROSFELD.

Witnesses:

W. HAUFF, E. F. KASTENIIUBER. 

